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To: Toddsterpatriot; Lurker; B4Ranch
The Federal Reserve is owned by its shareholders, the member banks.

No it isn't.

Yes, it is.

It operates as a for-profit entity, and any direct profits are paid to the Treasury

Why would the owners pay the profits to the Treasury?

To maintain the illusion that was advanced when the Fed was formed by bankers, for bankers, in 1913, that it exists as some sort of extension of the Treasury and for the good of the people. Neither is true.

while the indirect profits

What's an indirect profit?

I defined the term in the part of comment that you snipped. Go back to my original comment for the definition.

Your cited source is tainted and subjective, being the description of the Fed, by the Fed.

Yeah, why listen to the Fed about the Fed? We could cite some conspiracy website written by some idiot instead. LOL

What conspiracy website or "idiot" did I cite?

And speaking of conspiracy websites cited by idiots, you snipped the part of my post with the definition of the Democrat Party by the Democrat Party as an example of the intellectually dishonest and transparently deceptive method you used to supply a definition of the Fed by the Fed.

Why did you do that?


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

60 posted on 01/23/2011 3:53:51 PM PST by The Comedian ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
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To: The Comedian
The Federal Reserve is owned by its shareholders, the member banks.

No it isn't.

Yes, it is.

Prove it.

To maintain the illusion

LOL! $78.4 billion is a pretty powerful illusion.

I defined the term

No you didn't.

while the indirect profits it makes for its member owners by implementation of its unchecked and uncontrolled policies are retained by those banks.

See, that's not a definition.

What conspiracy website or "idiot" did I cite?

You didn't cite any source for your silly claim. Feel free to cite one that proves your claim.

62 posted on 01/23/2011 4:06:23 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: The Comedian
Ooooh. Game on! Be gentle. Or not.


95 posted on 01/24/2011 4:49:37 AM PST by TheOldLady ("...Communists in Congress, and Islamics everywhere, are showing who they truly are." - Lazamataz)
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